The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of NatureHunt, Robert
Philosophy
The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature
Hunt, Robert
Physics; Science
[120] _On a change produced by Exposure to the Beams of the Sun, in
the properties of an elementary substance_, by Professor Draper;
_On the changes which bodies undergo in the dark_, by Robert Hunt:
Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the British Association, vol.
xii,--_Description of the Tithonometer, an instrument for measuring
the chemical force of the Indigo-tithonic rays_: by J. W. Draper,
M.D.--Philosophical Magazine, Dec. 1843, vol. xxiii.
[121] For several illustrations of this remarkable phenomenon, see _On
the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours,
and on some new Photographic Processes_; by Sir John F. W. Herschel,
Bart., K.H., F.R.S.--Phil. Trans. June, 1842, vol. cxxxiii.; _On
certain improvements on Photographic Processes described in a former
communication, and on the Parathermic Rays of the Solar Spectrum_;
by Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., K.H., F.R.S., &c., in a letter
addressed to S. Hunter Christie.--Phil. Trans. 1843, vol. cxxxiv.
[122] Sir J. F. W. Herschel; see also _Researches on Light_, by the
Author.
[123] Attention has been directed to the protecting action of certain
rays of the spectrum by Sir John Herschel and others. See the
Eighteenth Report of the British Association for an experiment by
the Author, in which it was proved that all the LIGHT rays protected
photographic papers from chemical change, and, therefore, convincingly
show that light and actinism were not similar powers.
[124] “Having noticed, one densely foggy day, that the disc of the sun
was of a deep red colour, I directed my apparatus towards it. After
ten seconds of exposure, I put the prepared plate in the mercury box,
and I obtained a round image perfectly black;--the sun had produced no
photogenic effect. In another experiment, I left the plate operating
for twenty minutes; the sun had passed over a certain space of the
plate, and there resulted an image seven or eight times the sun’s
diameter in length; it was black throughout, so that it was evident,
wherever the red disc of the sun had passed, not only was there a
want of photogenic action, but the red rays had destroyed the effect
produced previous to the sun’s passage. I repeated these experiments
during several days successively, operating with a sun of different
tints of red and yellow. These different tints produced nearly the same
effect; wherever the sun had passed, there existed a black band.”--Mr.
Claudet, _On different properties of Solar Radiation, modified by
coloured glass media, &c._: Phil. Trans. 1847. Part 2.
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